A Good Night’s Sleep Means Less Sick Time
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iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — In addition to not feeling tired in the morning, a new study finds getting a good night’s sleep means you’re less likely to take time off from work due to illness.
A study published in the September issue of Sleep followed 3,700 people in Finland, ages 30 to 64, for an average of seven years and found those who slept between seven and eight hours a night had the lowest percentage of taking time off from work due to sickness.
According to the study, those who slept less than six hours were much more likely to have taken off work due to illness.
Surprisingly, those who slept more than nine hours a night were just as likely to miss work due to illness as those who got less than six hours of shut-eye.
The researchers say the ideal amount of sleep for women is seven hours, 38 minutes, and seven hours, 46 minutes for men.
Tea Lallukka, a researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, said in a news release that “those sleeping five hours or less, or 10 hours or more, were absent from work every year for 4.6 to 8.9 days more, as compared to those with the optimal sleep length.”
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